option.
I think we would agree that *all* members should be able to get information from the church directory, regardless of their physical abilities.
Here are some of the accessibility problems I found for people with disabilities.
1. The button on the Search All LDS.org search field is not labeled.
2. The Ward/Branch selector button is not in the tab navigation ring. It cannot be reached without the mouse. It is totally inaccessible with the keyboard, and is never spoken by a the screen reader. The effect is this: the blind user may not even be able to findknow which ward/branch they are viewing, because the ward/branch is part of the dropdown widget, and it is not in the tab order. A mobility impaired or blind user cannot change the ward/branch; so they cannot find any information about people in other wards/branches in the stake, nor can they find phone numbers for their Stake Leaders. This widget does not appear in the form controls dialog (Ins+F5 JAWS), nor in list of links for the page. This is a showstopper problem and of highest priority for fixing.
3. There is no accessibility help in the help information. Accessible sites should provide information on accessibility features.
4. There is no indication for a blind user that a list element in the second column is selected. So, for example, there is no way to know that it is the Bishopric selected in the second column and is displayed in the third column.
5. The list elements in the second column are a series of individual single lists, they should be elements of a larger list.
6. The columns themselves have no headings or tabular organization, so there is no way to skip from column 1 to column 2 to column 3 without tabbing through the entire contents of the column. This is a usabilty problem for those that can only use a keyboard.
7. On the household dialog, in edit mode, the edit/change/remove links are not accessible with the keyboard. A person with disabilities should be able to change and manage their own information.
On the good side,
a. Thank you for putting an H3 for each letter of the alphabet, this is useful for navigation.
b. Thank you for using HTML regions for mark-up.
c. Thank you for putting the third column information in a proper table with table headings properly marked up. This is extremely valuable for those who use a screen reader.
Please add the items 1 through 7 as high priorities in your defect list.
Thanks again for your tireless efforts to bring us information.